[caption id="attachment_2582" align="alignleft" width="258" caption="Jennifer Sass (NRDC.org)"][/caption] Jennifer Sass from the Natural Resources Defense Council says she "grew up in the Canadian prairies where I learned to love open spaces, wild places, big skies, long summer nights, cozy cold winters, and the comfort of good friends. I came to the US as a post-doctoral student of toxicology and environme ...

This is the text of an article I originally published in People, Places & Plants magazine in 2006. The message, contained within the movie, A Chemical Reaction, is still timely today. At the time scarcely anyone in the United States noticed. In May of 1991 the small town of Hudson, Quebec, located just west of Montreal, adopted a law restricting the use of lawn pesticides on all property, privately held or ...

In Canada, much of the nation has banned most of the common lawn and garden pesticides we still use here in the U.S. What most Americans don't know is that banning pesticides at the town and city level is illegal in 41 of 50 states due to "state preemption laws" that were passed in 1991 — the same year Hudson, Quebec, became the first town in North America to ban pesticides (see www.pfzmedia.com). The lawn ...